I think I/we might have Coronavirus thread (release your isolation-frustration here)

This is the problem I've been having, I kind of warm up during the day and feel better later on, get tired early and go to bed but in the mornings I'm still exhausted.

Two days of improvement had me hoping that I'd knocked it on the head. Obviously not yet!

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Random observation...
I also noticed my sweat smelled really bad, like a day in the saddle/long run/full game of footy or rugby or squash + then sitting in dirty kit for the rest of the evening bad - not through not showering or anything, but just generally bad (might be the already mentioned effects of sense of smell though).

Mrs Pasty having the same issues. She's typically very well and 32 and fit so not particularly vulnerable under usual conditions.

She first had flu type symptoms (if she wasn't so hard-ass and with a 2 and 3 year old she'd have just stayed in bed) on 7/3 that peaked 10-14 and eased completely 17-19 then she felt under the weather again from the 20th and yesterday started feeling much better again. Lingering cough/cold but up about and in good spirits and not having sleep affected any more than normal. Obviously could be a number of things and illness/virus back to back but, anecdotally, it seems, commonly people are having short bursts of wellness then quickly getting symptoms again (again, this likely isn't exclusive to Covid).

Pretty much exactly what happened to me yesterday after three basically good days. I was fine in the morning then the exhaustion and a bad sore throat hit me again at lunchtime. Then by evening the sore throat had gone again!

This is one reason I suspect I don't have the flu, when I've had flu before (even swine flu) it was much more 'linear', i.e. the symptoms were more like a bell curve.

This thing is more like feckin Columbo!

It seems to be massively dehydrating me. I drink lots of water and usually piss pretty clear, but with this I've had much darker wee. My pits are also a bit smelly (which I also only get when dehydrated).

Good observation!

Same here. I basically had 3 'phases':

Phase 1: ill but not that bad for 3-4 days, then mostly better for 3-4 days
Phase 2: really fucking ill for 4 days, felt better for about a week
Phase 3: ill for a day with similar symptoms to phase 2, i.e. fever/chills/muscle ache/fatigue (possibly triggered by 3 hours sleep followed by 15 hr work day when I wasn't fully better)

This was back at the start of February and I dismissed the first phase as bad cold and the second as flu.

I do wonder whether there's a particularly bad strain of flu going round and people are thinking 'this is covid'.

There a lot of speculation. It'd be good to hear what testing of a random sample of the population comes back with.

Hadn't figured on the dehydration - definitely could have been that

I had an awful cough for about 2 weeks before I had Covid symptoms (which had cleared up for a week before Covid reared its head). I never get coughs generally. I also wonder if this has contributed to me getting Covid, or at least having more pronounced symptoms. Lots of people in my building had this cough, and my downstairs neighbours seem to be convinced that the cough was Covid - despite the fact it would have been very ahead of the curve time wise. Who knows.

I felt pretty good yesterday. Woke up feeling worse again today. Heard it from other light sufferers as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkADj0TPrJA

:'(

Sorry to hear people are feeling shit again! Guess I'll have it in store for tomorrow then...

F@cking hell, this was bad enough without Phil Collins being dragged into it!

Hydration is really bloody important, folks. In any infection your body uses up fluids far more quickly than normal due to increased temperature and generally being busy fighting the infection, and the body removes spent toxins via kidneys and thus via urine, so it’s really key to drink lots and lots of fluids to keep the system going and to keep hydrated. Plain water is fine but added glucose or minerals and salts (even dioralyte) will help too.

My wife and I have had some sort of illness over the last week or so (since we started WFH).

The symptoms are bizarre and unlike anything we've had before. Dry/cracked lips, dehydrated, general tiredness, our sinus' are sore, my hamstrings and back are always in a state of dull ache regardless how much I stretch and over the last two/three days I've lost all sense of taste/smell. We have two little ones (1 & 5) and they seem to be fine at the moment.

The illness hasn't stopped us in the most, but we do get tired very quickly with the easiest tasks.

The loss of taste and smell has thrown me as I've never had this before.

Dehydration, fatigue, muscle/joint aches, loss of taste/smell are all noted as being common symptoms with Covid.

I have pretty much exactly the symptoms you’re describing including weirdly achey hamstrings and back, though I’d put that down to the rubbish chair I’ve been sat on since working from home.

Started with a dry cough on Sunday, minor headache / cold symptoms but no fever then today a complete and very sudden loss of both taste and smell. Definitely feeling fatigued as well. Hope this is as bad as it gets...

@nefarious & @russmeyer Are you trying to work through this? I'm trying my best to but it's nearly impossible to get my head in gear. Managed to get a few scattered hours done yesterday, today it's even harder.

I'm the first to commit to be a bit lazy, but this is something else

Just out of interest, because I've lost track, who has tested positive?

Yeah I'm doing some laptop & phone work but had to crash for 1.5 hrs today from exhaustion really. Felt much better yesterday as I wrote earlier, hope it turns for the better again soon.

Thousands and thousands, haven't you heard?!

On here, no idea. I'm one.

I normally get really sore hips when I don't exercise for a while or go on holiday and sit around on rubbish seats. This feels a bit different though?

Thankfully I've not had a cough but I did have one night when I woke up covered in sweat. Other than that, it's the symptoms as said previously just in varying degrees and changing in severity every couple days.

haha wish I could think of a funny response, give me a minute and I might have one.

It's the mild symptoms that worry me more than none whatsoever. I've been feeling run down and have a kind of heartburn feeling (recntly flew to Berlin). I'd just figure this was stress due to moving country but now I'm second guessing. Have no other symptoms, temperature below 37 etc. etc.

Hypochondriac in me loves this.